Word: fasci
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guard dressed in conspicuously gaudy Bourbon uniform, the joke of the countryside. But his son, Lando, lived luxuriously in Rome, and published, out of boredom, a socialist paper which sympathized from safe distance with laborers in Sicily. An enthusiastic delegation of these laborers, representing half-baked unions called fasci, nevertheless persuaded Lando, against his better cynical judgment, to come to Sicily and co-ordinate revolt...
...Significance. Such is the array of Pirandello's characters-the old clinging foolishly to the dead Bourbon issue, the young fasci passionately avowing an unborn issue, and the middle aged fattening themselves on a fast demoding regime of ruthlessness-that one finishes his grand-scale novel with as great a mental confusion as existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins...
...dangerous enemy which Italy had, and to see that Italy's politicians were wasting the fruits of the victory. The men to whom he could appeal were the ex-service men and, with the rare sagacity born of a natural politician, he began to organize these into the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento (later the Fascist Party) "for the vindication of the victory, the rights of ex-service men and the liberty of the world...